The local election results saw the SNP lose just seven seats, while the Tories gained 164, mainly at the expense of Labour who lost 133. "The SNP are clearly the favourite in this election and I think it's important to look at the vote in that context".

During his call with Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe, the two leaders agreed that their countries must not let their hard history hamper co-operation in dealing with North Korea's nuclear program, Moon's office said. Moon backs engagement with the nuclear-armed North in the quest for peace - in contrast to the threatening rhetoric from the Trump administration in recent weeks - and has immediately declared his willingness to visit Pyongyang.

With just four months to go until the vote in Lima, the 11-member IOC Evaluation Commission will on Sunday begin their three-day inspection of the French capital on the day Macron takes over from Francois Hollande. "One of them said to us: 'We keep looking for the hole in this bid and we can't find it, '" Garcetti told journalists. POLITICS: When President Donald Trump first issued his executive order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries, it ...

The girls arrived at Abuja airport and were driven away in a military convoy. The Associated Press reports five Boko Haram commanders were freed in the swap. In October, 21 of the girls were released following negotiations brokered by the Swiss government, the Red Cross and some local intermediaries. Last month, President Buhari said the government remained "in constant touch through negotiations, through local intelligence to secure the release of the remaining girls and other ...

For a White House accustomed to bouts of chaos, Trump's handling of Comey's firing could have serious and long-lasting implications. "However, because of the many false statements made by White House officials this week, we are compelled to ask whether any such recordings do in fact exist".

Entitled "Israel - The Nation-State of the Jewish People", the bill declares that "the right to realize national self-determination in the state of Israel is unique to the Jewish people". Begin's version of the bill is a paragraph-long declaration of the Jewish nature of the state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem May 7, 2017.

Critics have described the proposed legislation, which also declares that the "right to self-determination" in Israel is "unique to the Jewish people" as impinging on the rights of its Arab minority. US President Donald Trump told a major Israeli newspaper this weekend he was looking forward to a "wonderful and productive" trip to the Jewish state later this month.

The head of International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, has previously said that one of the biggest risks facing the global economy is "the sword of protectionism hanging over global trade". They also called for a renewed common effort against cybercrime. The G7 said banks should strengthen their resilience to attacks through regular exercises and simulations, known as "penetration tests", and it called on a cyber security task force it set up in 2015 to accelerate its work."We recognise ...

Current Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo to his department directing federal prosecutors to charge defendants with the most serious crimes with the most severe penalties. The memo also effectively rolls back a memo issued by then-Attorney General Eric Holder in 2013. "Congress has to act now and serve as a check on the egregious behavior of Sessions' Justice Department", said Collins.

Trump's frustrations came to a head this week with the firing of FBI Director James Comey, who was overseeing the probe into his campaign's possible ties to Russia's election meddling. Howard Hunt, were indicted by a grand jury. "My decision", Trump told NBC's Lester Holt. On Thursday, McCabe told senators that at the time of his firing, Comey enjoyed "broad support within the Federal Bureau of Investigation and still does to this day".

Demanding that Aam Aadmi Party leaders disclose details of funding of their foreign trips, fired Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra began a hunger strike May 10. The ACB had also recorded the statement of the founder of Roads Anti-Corruption Organisation (RACO) Rahul Sharma on whose complaints it had registered three FIRs pertaining to the PWD scam.

Scherbak said his post - addressed to United States media - was prompted by "this hysteria around my photo shoot at the White House". With Russian there's one problem: "they were lying", he said, not hiding my anger. But security experts said that the risk was real, if remote. According to CNN , the unnamed White House official asked, "What are we supposed to do?" The official also rejected security concerns about allowing Russian officials into the Oval Office, including Kislyak, who ...